Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

Watching Guyver 2 now, and I will most certainly be watching Super Inframan very very soon. Its criminal that I haven't revisited that particularly craziness sooner because I'm long overdue. Anyways, for now here's a trailer free poll....

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) - From his perspective they're all giant monsters!

Latitude Zero (1969) - Not sure of the longitude...

Caveman (1981) - Stop motion dinosaurs, so it counts! Zug zug!

The Blob (1958) - Always on the list, but never a winner.

The Black Scorpion (1957) - Willis O'Brien and King Kong prop cameos!

Outlander (2008) - A bit more contemporary of an option but also most certainly not!

voted for The Blob (1958) The Black Scorpion (1957)

I choose you Blob! and Outlander!

time to do the tie dance once again.

Someone's holding out on a vote.

I voted for Shrinking Man and Latitude Zero. The former I haven't seen since afternoon creature features many moons ago, and the latter I have had but keep forgetting that I need to watch it.

go blob go!

If the blob takes this, its available to watch on Hulu + if you are a subscriber.

or is it?!

Someone alunda Caveman, or at least thinks Caveman bobo.

and The Black Scorpion take it's.

Or did it?

Is today the cutoff or tomorrow?

Btw, Incredible Shrinking Man is the feature on Svengoolie on MeTv right now! Yay!

This movie is costing me $2 to rent on prime. It had better be good...

Yeh... im probably going to do the same. The biggest interest factor for me is that apparently a lot of the armatures from the lost spider pit scene in Kong 33 are featured in this movie.

Just finished watching this and this film is a mixed bag. The first 40 minutes or so of the film is one of the dullest films I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of 1950s schlock. Its so painful it hurts. However about a 1/3rd of the way in the scorpion makes an appearance and things quickly pick up. When they go to the cavern there are a bunch of delightful creatures and it really does feel like something out of a King Kong film, The scorpions really shine for the most part. The stop motion is top notch butch the big props for closeups are incredibly goofy. For closeups they use a dolly zoom to make it look like the prop is advancing and its utterly non-convincing. The final rampage though is awesome. You have scorpions vs trains, other scorpions and a giant battle royale in a stadium against tanks and helicopters. I really can't describe how well the stop motion actions scenes are and so it baffles me as to why the filmmakers went with such a terrible studio prop for closeups. Also the military guy manning the electric harpoon in the finale has one of the funniest deaths I've ever seen in a science fiction movie. I literally facepalmed while saying "IDIOT!"

Final review, C+ If you can survive the first third of the film, it goes from dull slowpaced garbage to awesome fastpaced action movie.

and Richard Denning is awesome.

Anyone else watch this movie yet? Bueller? Bueller?